Bathing Beauties of Bygone Days

Leslie Brooks

Evelyn Ankers pairs her bikini and platform sandals with a sombrero and striped serape in 1944.

Evelyn Ankers pairs her two-piece floral print playsuit with a sombrero and striped serape in 1944.

Adele Mara

Evelyn Ankers, 1944

Martha Vickers, 1943.

Karen Sharpe

[Original caption reads: "If there isn't a stiff breeze one can be manufactured. That is the way Juanita Stark does things and to prove it the lovely lass, who will soon appear in Warner Bros. DIVE BOMBER, rigs up a fan on her bicycle."]

Loretta Young stops for a picture while bike riding through Palm Springs in 1932

Mary Beth Hughes

3. [Captioned: "A running start peps up the circulation."]

Rita Hayworth poses on a bicycle next to the Beverly Hills Hotel swimming pool in 1940.

Fay Wray